Wilhelm von Christ German

Germany

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 classical scholar, was born in Geisenheim in Hesse-Nassau.

From 1854 till 1860 he taught in the Maximiliansgymnasium at Munich

Munich

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, and in 1861 was appointed professor of classical philology

Philology

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 in the university.

His most important works are:

• Geschichte der griechischen Literatur (5th ed., 1908 f.), a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian
  Justinian I
  Justinian I ; , ; 483– 13 or 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.One of the most important figures of...
  
  , one of the best works on the subject
• Metrik der Griechen und Römer (1879)
• editions of Pindar
  Pindar
  Pindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...
  
   (1887)
• edition of the Poetika of Aristotle
  Aristotle
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   (1878)
• edition of the Metaphysica of Aristotle (1895)
• Iliad
  Iliad
  The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...
  
  (1884)

His contributions to the Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences are particularly valuable.

See Otto Crusius

Otto Crusius (1857-1918)

Otto Crusius was a German classical scholar, born at Hanover. He became professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1898 and at Munich in 1903. His works include: Zur griechischen Religionsgeschichte , Untersuchungen zu Herondas , etc. He edited Philologus; Herondas ; Fabeln des Babrius ; and...

, Gedächtnisrede (Munich, 1907). After Wilhelm von Christ died, his Literatur was revised by Wilhelm Schmid

Wilhelm Schmid (scholar)

Wilhelm Schmid was a German classical scholar, born at Künzelsau. After studies at the universities of Tübingen and Strassburg he taught at Tübingen and became professor there in 1893...

.